vendredi 21 janvier 2011

Deux soleils dans le ciel en 2012

J'en connais qui vont encore ch... dans leurs frocs...

Earth could be getting a second sun, at least temporarily.

Dr. Brad Carter, Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland, outlined the scenario to news.com.au. Betelgeuse, one of the night sky's brightest stars, is losing mass, indicating it is collapsing. It could run out of fuel and go super-nova at any time.

When that happens, for at least a few weeks, we'd see a second sun, Carter says. There may also be no night during that timeframe.

The Star Wars-esque scenario could happen by 2012, Carter says... or it could take longer. The explosion could also cause a neutron star or result in the formation of a black hole 1300 light years from Earth, reports news.com.au.

But doomsday sayers should be careful about speculation on this one. If the star does go super-nova, Earth will be showered with harmless particles, according to Carter. "They will flood through the Earth and bizarrely enough, even though the supernova we see visually will light up the night sky, 99 per cent of the energy in the supernova is released in these particles that will come through our bodies and through the Earth with absolutely no harm whatsoever," he told news.com.au.

In fact, a neutrino shower could be beneficial to Earth. According to Carter this "star stuff" makes up the universe. "It literally makes things like gold, silver - all the heavy elements - even things like uranium....a star like Betelgeuse is instantly forming for us all sorts of heavy elements and atoms that our own Earth and our own bodies have from long past supernovi," said Carter.

Huffingtonpost

4 commentaires:

  1. Maha regarde ce document en français, stp. Il

    est vraiment génial que j'aimerai que tout le

    monde puisse le voir :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7uUa1v024I

    A voir jusqu'à la dernière minute, merci.

    UKAN

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  2. Vue que c'est en anglais et que j'y comprend rien, je ne vais pas chier dans mon froc mais plutot "shit in my pants"! :]

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  3. impossible ,hubble surveille beltégueuese qui se trouve à 640 années lumière donc si elle explose la lumière mettra 640 années pour nous parvenir sachant que l'étoile à l'oeil d'hubble est intact ,nous verrons un 2 ème soleil en 2700

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  4. Et si beltégeuse à explosée il y a 640 ans , on dit quoi? Ooouups!

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